True Image Home 2016 Image & Windows 10 Recovery Image - How Similar?
Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64Bit
Acronis True Image Home 2016
In creating Windows 10 Recovery Disk (USB Thumb Drive), an option is "Back up system files to the recovery drive". I called Microsoft and was told it is an image of the whole OS drive, including any documents I might have in the OS drive. The process creates a Recovery Partition which I would have the option to delete after creating the USB Recovery disk.
I asked, what if I chose not to delete it since hard drive space is not an issue here. He said I can leave it there and still boot from it if my system were to fail. Just like the old format of recovering a system from the hidden Recue dick computer manufacturer's use to include in systems up to Windows 7 (not sure of in Windows 8 since I never checked).
My question is, what is the difference between the created Recovery Disk created by Windows 10 for recovery and the image True Image Home creates if I were to create an image of the OS drive with ATIHome? Both situations sound very similar to me.
Thanks.
I'm not quite following you on this but as far as I know you are referring to three different things here. (and I use Windows 10 Disk Imaging in preference to Acronis having had so many problems with TI2016 and W10)
1/ Windows 10 has a built in disk imaging utility that allows you to create a full system image of all partitions needed for Windows PLUS other partitions of your choosing. In that respect its like Acronis It creates a full image each time it is run. There is no option to add to those images incrementally or differentially. Each time it is run it will overwrite the previous image unless you rename the original backup first. If you want to restore that image at some point then you must rename it back to the default of WindowsImageBackup. The images can be created on a partition or drive of your choice and the images can be moved around at will with Windows file explorer just as if they were a normal folder.
2/ The Windows Recovery Disc that it asks you to create enables you to boot the PC (should Windows be non bootable) and the disc offers various repair options as well as the ability to restore the Windows Disk images you may have made.
Acronis bootable media loads Acronis into RAM at start up and allows Acronis to run, and it allows for you to be able to make and restore Acronis images.
3/ Adding a Windows system image to the USB recovery drive... that is something I have never heard of. Usually the recovery media you create (USB drive/CD/DVD disc) just contains the necessary files to boot the PC and access the recovery options. I've never heard of being able to also store an image on the same drive.